space travel

In a dog race the dogs chase a mechanical rabbit around the race tract. Now replace the dog by a spacecraft that has a drive that can deform the curvature of local space time. The spacecraft generates a virtual black hole in the place of the mechanical rabbit. As long as the drive is active there is no limit to the speed of the spacecraft.

jizba wrote:In a dog race the dogs chase a mechanical rabbit around the race tract. Now replace the dog by a spacecraft that has a drive that can deform the curvature of local space time. The spacecraft generates a virtual black hole in the place of the mechanical rabbit. As long as the drive is active there is no limit to the speed of the spacecraft.

Hi Jizba, is this akin to the shortest distance between two points is zero? A simple transfer from A to B...all angles being possible in any given location?

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Using rockets that rely on thrust by ejecting mass will never give us the ability to travel long distances in space. However, since there iscredible evidence that space travel by someones from distant starshave reached our solar system (as evidenced by numerous imagesobtained by NASA spacecraft, and by evidence of alien spacecraft accidents --such as Varginha in Brasil--, and by accounts in the USof alien presence such as the "tall whites") there is clearly a high likelihood of alternate methods of traveling in space. One possibility is that high speeds in space can be achieved by spacecraft that has the capability to distort local spacetime. By doing so the craft falls as if attracted by a high mass such as a black hole. My attempt to explain this has resulted in this particular thread.

Could this also be done by using stars in the same manner as blackholes? I've been wondering, since there is abundant SOHO images of ships (refueling?) in our sun.

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"This is an indeterminite problem. How shall I solve it? Pessimistically? Or optimistically? Or a range of probabilities expressed as a curve, or several curves?..........Well.....we're Loonies. Loonies bet. Hell, we have to! They shipped us up and bet us we couldn't stay alive. We fooled 'em. We'll fool 'em again!" Robert Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

Rue she said ProtectionRooster's Crow ConfusionOne thing else to end the deed --A dog with no Illusion. ~ Walter Wangerin Jr., Book of the Dun Cow